We are glad to announce that we have restored and overhauled the site stats for projects. Unlike our download stats, these include things like page visits, tracker hits, forum posts, etc. Let’s take a look:

Improved UI:

If you’re familiar with using our download stats, you’ll see that we’ve upgraded the stats system to have a more consistent and clean look.

Custom date reporting:

You can show stats for any custom date range you choose. (Please note, historical data prior to April 1, 2011 is still available via the original interface, and is currently being imported into the new system).

Improvements under the hood:

We have completely revamped the way our stats are calculated using our own homegrown open source project called Zarkov. You can expect to read more about this in an upcoming blog post, but in a nutshell, Zarkov is an event logger and aggregator we use internally. It’s written in Python and uses MongoDB.

What’s next?

Currently, we are working on importing old data from before April 1, 2011 and tweaking the project rankings and sitewide stats (to include SCM data for Bazaar and Mercurial, and fixing a few minor bugs).

We greatly appreciate everyone’s patience while we make things better.

Projects of The Month

Community Choice Tie Vote:

Octave-Forge - a central location for the collaborative development of packages for GNU Octave. The Octave-Forge packages expand Octave's core functionality by providing field specific features via Octave's package system. For example, image and signal processing, fuzzy logic, instrument control, and statistics packages are examples of individual Octave-Forge packages.

SharpDevelop - the open-source IDE for the .NET platform. Write applications in languages including C#, VB.NET, F#, IronPython and IronRuby, as well as target rich and reach: Windows Forms or WPF, as well as ASP.NET MVC and WCF. It starts from USB drives, supports read-only projects, comes with integrated unit and performance testing tools, Git, NuGet and a lot more features that make you productive as a developer.

Staff Pick:

TortoiseSVN - a Subversion (SVN) client, implemented as a Windows shell extension. It's intuitive and easy to use, since it doesn't require the Subversion command line client to run. Simply the coolest Interface to (Sub)Version Control!